{"id":202914,"date":"2018-10-17T19:18:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=202914"},"modified":"2018-10-17T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:53:05","slug":"brazil-falls-three-places-in-competitiveness-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-falls-three-places-in-competitiveness-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil falls three places in competitiveness ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Economic Forum (WEF)<\/a> released this Wednesday (17) the latest edition of its Global Competitiveness Report. Brazil has the 72<sup>nd<\/sup> position out of 140 countries, three places below the position held by the country in last year\u2019s report, with a 59.9 score, in a scale from zero to 100. The United States sits atop the ranking with 85.6 points. In the picture, S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s City Market.<\/p>\n<p>The scores given to the countries are based on factors such as performance of the institutions, infrastructure, use of information technologies, macroeconomic scenario, life expectancy, education, competition, trade opening, labor market, financial system, market size, business dynamics and innovation capacity. Brazil\u2019s best score was achieved in size market with 80.9 points, which places the country in the 10<sup>th<\/sup> position in this category. China leads it.<\/p>\n<p>The Arab countries sitting in the best positions in the overall ranking are the United Arab Emirates, with 73.4 points at the 27<sup>th<\/sup> position; Qatar, with 71 points at the 30<sup>th<\/sup> position; and Saudi Arabia, with 67.5 points at the 39<sup>th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Economic Forum, it made use of a new methodology this year to better represent the dynamics of the global economy in face of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, marked by innovation and digital technology. The survey shows that 103 countries scored below 50 points in the innovation processes category. According to the WEF, the gap between the economies in this area is one of the most concerning findings in the report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-202904\">Cris Faga\/NurPhoto\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country appears at the 72nd position out of 140 economices in a report released by the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":202904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[232,3736,5594,38156,510,393,228,2650,2166,2826,5596,5595],"class_list":{"0":"post-202914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-competitiveness","11":"tag-forum-economico-mundial-en","12":"tag-qatar","13":"tag-saudi-arabia","14":"tag-uae","15":"tag-united-arab-emirates","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wef","19":"tag-world-economic-forum"},"wps_subtitle":"The country appears at the 72nd position out of 140 economices in a report released by the World Economic Forum.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}